The Golden Age of Stonehenge: Clarence Korker's 1950s

Judy Garland, at an inn in Ridgefield, photographed by a local man with a good eye.

Historical Society board member Keith Russell leads an illustrated discussion on Stonehenge Inn during the 1950s, built around recently digitized photographs of the inn's guests, staff and social life. Judy Garland and Jackie Cooper both turn up in the frames.

The photographer was Clarence "Korky" Korker, who documented Ridgefield across the middle and later twentieth century in thousands of photographs and negatives, then donated the whole collection to the Historical Society when he retired. Russell has been working through it steadily, digitizing and adding images to the Society's online archive. What is in there ranges well beyond the celebrities: portraits, weddings, community gatherings, streetscapes and commercial buildings.

Note the date. This program was postponed from August, so if you had it in your calendar for the summer, it is now the third Tuesday in November.

About the club. The Ridgefield History Club is an informal storytelling hour that meets on the third Tuesday of every month to take one piece of the town's history apart through conversation. Every session is recorded into the Society's archive, streamed live on Facebook and posted to their YouTube channel afterwards. Newcomers are as welcome as people who have been here sixty years.

It's free. No charge, but registration is requested because parking and seating at the Scott House are tight.

Where to go. The Scott House is a 1714 saltbox at 4 Sunset Lane in Ridgefield, and it is the Historical Society's home. Parking and seating are both limited.